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Audi Blog, Performance, Tuning, Motorsport, and Modification News

We have all seen people jump over cars before. Obviously it is not easy to do and takes quite a bit of athleticism to accomplish without injury. The videos you have likely seen are of cars that are stationary or moving slowly. This guy from Norway decides to up the ante quite a bit with an R8 traveling close to 100 miles per hour. The margin for error is very slim and at that speed if there is an error it likely will cost the jumper his life.
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This is not really a surprise as automakers downsize motors across the lineup. What is interesting is that even the premium models such as the top of the line Audi A8 sedan will get a four-cylinder gasoline engine option. Europeans are used to small motors in premium cars but does a four-cylinder make sense for something as large and expensive as an A8? With the output of some of the new turbo four-cylinder engines it really should not be a problem.
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APR's turbo upgrade package for the Audi TT-RS 2.5 inline-5 TFSI is very potent. The Garrett GTX3567R turbo at the heart of the upgrade is capable of producing over 600 wheel horsepower on the TT-RS. The TT-RS in the video is stated to have somewhere in the 650 all wheel horsepower range and considering the outcome of these two races there is no reason to doubt the output.
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Audi showed off a triple turbocharged 3.0 liter V6 diesel motor in May of this year on the RS5 TDI concept. That engine concept is moving to reality as Audi confirmed that the engine will see production in the upcoming SQ7 TDI. What type of output the SQ7 TDI will have nobody except Audi knows at this point. In the RS5 TDI concept Audi tuned the motor to 385 horsepower and an eye opening 553 lb-ft of torque. AudiBoost has its fingers crossed the production variant of the motor approaches this output.
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Audi and Porsche do not really like each other. They have to play nice as Volkswagen owns both of them now but Porsche and Audi each want to call the shots in the luxury segment. As Porsche expands its model lineup it continues to step on Audi's toes. Audi does not like this but Porsche also does not like that Audi made the R8 which definitely targets potential 911 buyers. Each company is taking offense with the other.
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Good news for owners of the new Volkswagen and Audi EA888 2.0 turbo motor. APR has released their tuning software for the engine which covers the 2014 up Audi A3 2.0 and the 2014 on MKVII Volkswagen Golf GTI. The software is flashed through the OBD-II port and has programs for 91 octane, 93 octane, and 100+ octane race gas. APR also bumps the redline up to 7100 rpm from the stock 6800 rpm.
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Diesel sales are on the rise. Audi USA diesel sales are on a dramatic rise with sales increasing four times in 2014 over 2013. That is a huge jump and it should show to German executives that Americans not only like the idea of diesels, they buy them. For some reason the Germans continue to think Americans do not want diesels and they reserve their best diesel models for Europe. This is not just Volkswagen but Audi and BMW as well.
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The R8 getting factory twin turbo V8 power? Sounds like an AudiBoost dream come true if this latest report from Automobilemag is to be believed. Frankly, it shouldn't be because there is no support for it. All the automotive journalists are guessing at this point and it is rather sad to see what the internet era has done to the quality of professional automotive journalism. Car and Driver reported earlier this year the 4.2 FSI would live on in the next generation R8.
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The Audi SQ5 is essentially a higher performance version of the Q5 3.0 TFSI. Both cars use the same basic motor but the engine is in two different states of tune. The standard Q5 3.0 TFSI has 272 horsepower. The SQ5 bumps this to 345 horsepower stock. As APR already showed us with the Q5 3.0 TFSI the engine is highly tunable as their pulley and ECU upgrade gains 132 horsepower at the wheels.
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A recent article on a quick Auto Express video comparison between the M4 and RS5 got a lot of attention partially due to just how much stronger of a performer the new M4 is over the Audi RS5. The performance comparison between the two cars is pretty one sided. Here we have much more data than the quick Auto Express video thanks to the German publication Autozeitung and although it is in German numbers are universal.
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Glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) is seeing more and more use in modern cars as the material is relatively cheap and lightweight. The common term of course is fiberglass and Audi found another area to use it and will be incorporating it into the suspension system of their production cars. The most likely candidate to see the new GFRP springs is the facelifted Audi A7 sedan set for an official launch later this year.
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Someone over on the Audi UK site was a bit overzealous and revealed new the new Audi RS6 Plus model early. The details have since been taken down but not before the internet as is customary saved a few pictures. Audi has done RS6 plus models before and essentially they give the car a more aggressive tune. We do not know if this is just a software only upgrade (it likely is) but we do know they increase the horsepower of the RS6 by 40 for a total of 600.
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As an automotive enthusiast who participated in a few different discussion forums over the years experience has shown that putting performance in context with Audi fans is frustrating. Why? Well, let's take this example of the Audi RS5. It's an absolutely beautiful car with a gem of a 4.2 liter naturally aspirated V8 motor revving to 8500 rpm and sending 450 horsepower to all four wheels. Your average car fan will see the 450 horsepower figure and think it beats the BMW M4 with 'only' a 425 horsepower rating.
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Who will dethrone the Audi 2.5 TFSI engine in the 2.0 - 2.5 liter category? It does not look like anybody will as Audi takes home its fifth straight award in this displacement category with their venerable 2.5 TFSI inline-5. The only real challenger appears to be Mazda's 2.2 liter SkyActiv diesel although that motor is not nearly as exciting as Audi's 2.5 TFSI. AudiBoost is a big fan of the 2.5 TFSI as it is a tuning dream.
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Audi Motorsport is on a huge roll. They of course won the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans making for their fifth straight Le Mans victory. In the span of a week following Le Mans Audi Motorsport takes another 24 hour endurance race victory at the 24 Hour of the Nurburgring this past Sunday. Phoenix Racing took the victory in their R8 LMS car. This was a hard fought victory as the Mercedes SLS of team Black Falcon put up an exceptional fight.
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